Light - The Physics of the Photon
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Light - The Physics of the Photon

  1. 484 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Light - The Physics of the Photon

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From the early wave-particle arguments to the mathematical theory of electromagnetism to Einstein's work on the quantization of light, different descriptions of what constitutes light have existed for over 300 years. Light - The Physics of the Photon examines the photon phenomenon from several perspectives. It demonstrates the importance of studyin

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781439840443
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. About the author
  6. Part I: Classical optics in global vacuum
  7. Chapter 1: Heading for photon physics
  8. Chapter 2: Fundamentals of free electromagnetic fields
  9. Chapter 3: Optics in the special theory of relativity
  10. Part II: Light rays and geodesics. Maxwell theory in general relativity
  11. Chapter 4: The light-particle and wave pictures in classical physics
  12. Chapter 5: Eikonal theory and Fermat’s principle
  13. Chapter 6: Geodesics in general relativity
  14. Chapter 7: The space-time of general relativity
  15. Chapter 8: Electromagnetic theory in curved space-time
  16. Part III: Photon wave mechanics
  17. Chapter 9: The elusive light particle
  18. Chapter 10: Wave mechanics based on transverse vector potential
  19. Chapter 11: Longitudinal and scalar photons. Gauge and near-field light quanta
  20. Chapter 12: Massive photon field
  21. Chapter 13: Photon energy wave function formalism
  22. Part IV: Single-photon quantum opticsin Minkowskian space
  23. Chapter 14: The photon of the quantized electromagnetic field
  24. Chapter 15: Polychromatic photons
  25. Chapter 16: Single-photon wave packet correlations
  26. Chapter 17: Interference phenomena with single-photon states
  27. Chapter 18: Free-field operators: Time evolution andcommutation relations
  28. Part V: Photon embryo states
  29. Chapter 19: Attached photons in rim zones
  30. Chapter 20: Evanescent photon fields
  31. Chapter 21: Photon tunneling
  32. Chapter 22: Near-field photon emission in 3D
  33. Part VI: Photon source domain andpropagators
  34. Chapter 23: Super-confined T-photon sources
  35. Chapter 24: Transverse current density in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics
  36. Chapter 25: Spin-1/2 current density in relativistic quantum mechanics
  37. Chapter 26: Massless photon propagators
  38. Part VII: Photon vacuum and quanta in Minkowskian space
  39. Chapter 27: Photons and observers
  40. Chapter 28: The inertial class of observers: Photon vacuum and quanta
  41. Chapter 29: The non-inertial class of observers: The nebulousparticle concept
  42. Chapter 30: Photon mass and hidden gauge invariance
  43. Part VIII: Two-photon entanglement inspace-time
  44. Chapter 31: The quantal photon gas
  45. Chapter 32: Quantum measurements
  46. Chapter 33: Two-photon wave mechanics and correlation matrices
  47. Chapter 34: Spontaneous one- and two-photon emissions
  48. Bibliography
  49. Back Cover